Stereotypes Of Rape In America

Introduction

Crime television shows have captured millions of people’s attention in the United States of America. Rape is considered to be the only crime in which a victim must prove that male or female did not give consent to the offender. Sexual assault is involuntary sexual contact that occurs through the actor’s use of force, coercion or the victim’s incapacitation (Thomson 2015). When researching sexual violence there are four types of rape: female to female, female to male, male to female, and male to male. Research shows that white female’s victims are often exaggerated through crime-related television shows, while African Americans are emphasized offenders and inflate the proportion of all crime. Studying how victims of both men and

The overall results showed that with season 3 and season 10 combine there were 10 out of 25 shows that were middle aged perpetrators (40%). Figure 6 also displays other categories of the age of a perpetrator such as middle aged, older, and combination. The season together resulted in 16% young adult perpetrators, 4% older perpetrators and 36% combination perpetrators. The charts from figure 5 and figure 6 can conclude that the researcher’s hypothesis stating “victims are more likely to be children and/or teen while perpetrators are more likely to be middle aged” was

The models used in this research shows that there are mainly white perpetrators and whit victims. In reality race doesn’t matter when it comes to crimes such as rape, sexual assault and etc. The pattern that is shown in these results and in reality is that majority of the victims are women. Although there are cases where men are victims men are also considered the ones to be able to take care of themselves where that does not come across to